Hyacinth Bean Soup & Steamed Pork Rib With Cauliflower

This was 2 Tuesdays ago. This was another one of the hot and humid days we are having here.

Beautiful sunrise at 7:06am.

Golden sunrise at 7:26am.

Morning sky at 7:27am.

Clear blue sky and white cloud.

Simple home prepared breakfast.

We had half boiled eggs, toast and jam.

Milo kosong for hubby and Bru coffee with nestum for me

For lunch, we had glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang).

These are the smaller bak chang and just nice for a not so heavy lunch.

The bak chang filling consist of mung beans, salted egg yolk and pork. We have been buying these at RM11 for 3 bak changs. We were informed that very likely they will have to increase the price due to the increasing prices of raw materials.

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When the weather is hot and humid, my kitchen becomes like an sauna room. I have a mini fan in the kitchen but it doesn't help much. I will be sweating away and my t-shirt will be all wet. So, to spend less time in the kitchen, I tried to cook dishes with less preparation time.

Steamed pork rib with salted black beans with the cauliflower as base in a metal plate.

Soup:  Green hyacinth beans (pang pei dau), carrot, red dates, goji berries, and chicken bones. Cooking soup is easy. I just dump everything into a pressure cooker. Once it reached high pressure, I let it slow cook for 25 to 30 minutes over low fire. In this way, it taste like authentic soup cooked the traditional way and it also helps to save gas.

This steamed pork rib dish and the soup is an appetizing combination for a warm and sweaty evening.

My bauhinia kockiana clusters in different shades of yellow and orange.

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I received the following photos from my friend.

She saw this monitor lizard in the drain outside her house.

Photos credited to Shirley T.

If I see this, I don't know whether I have the courage to take these snapshots.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Don't be impatient.

Wait for the Lord, and he will come and save you!

Be brave, stouthearted and courageous.

Yes, wait and he will help you.

(Psalm 27:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Hyacinth Bean Soup (Pang Pei Dau), Home Cooked

Today is 8th day MCO. Today is bright and sunny. I woke up too late to catch the sunrise this morning. I was up early yesterday morning but there was no spectacular sunrise, just grey sky. 

Morning sky @ 7:25 am - 7th day MCO

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For my convenience, I boiled soup enough for 2 meals i.e. lunch and dinner.

 Hyacinth bean soup (pang pei dau) with carrot, red dates, and pork.

 For lunch, I steamed multi grain rice for hubby alone.

 Hubby's simple lunch. 

 The kacang putih or snack factory was closed, so hubby bought a small packet of crunchy broad beans from the grocery store.

Snack time for hubby: crunchy broad beans & a can of 100 Plus isotonic drink.

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What we had for dinner that evening.

 I harvested 1 big and 1 smaller angled loofah and some long beans from my garden. I used them to cooked with dried prawns and an egg.

 2 big bowls of hyacinth beans soup

Thank God for this simple dinner for 2 people.

Happy to see red ixora flowers from my garden again.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Dear brothers, is your life full of difficulties and temptations?

Then be happy, for when the way is rough,

your patience has a chance to grow.

So let it grow, and don't try to squirm out of your problems.

For when your patience is finally in full bloom,

then you will be ready for anything,

strong in character, full and complete.

(James 1:2-4, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Cooked Dinner with White Brinjal Harvested From The Garden.

Hubby wanted to eat the wonton noodle but found the shop closed, so the nearest is Restoran Tet Shin.

  It took a while for hubby to decide and he finally ended up ordering the Mee Jawa.

  I didn't want noodle so I ordered some fried stuffs, a stuffed tofu and a meat ball.

My lunch - 5 small apricots and 1 peach.

I bought a packet of small sized apricots and a packet of peaches shaped like doughnuts from a nearby supermarket. The peaches were very juicy and sweet.

 That morning, I harvested 6 white brinjals (eggplants) and 3 white bitter gourds or bitter melons.

That evening, I used 5 white brinjals or eggplants to cook for dinner. My friends gave me some of her home grown Hyacinth beans to cook soup.

Using the white brinjals to try out a Korean eggplant dish recipe.
Steamed eggplant mixed with a mixture of chopped garlic, onions and sauces.

Soup made from boiling Hyacinth beans, pork ribs, carrot, red dates and wolf berries.

Spicy dried prawns paste.

Dinner for 2 - These dishes eaten with white rice.

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The following 2 fences are for joining Good Fences.

 Tall fence in one part of town.

 Orange chain link fence along the highway.

Linking to Good Fences.

And a main road will go through the once-deserted land;

it will be named "The Holy Highway."

No evil-hearted men may walk upon it.

God will walk there with you;

even the most stupid cannot miss the way.

No lion will lurk along its course,

nor will there be any other dangers;

only the redeemed will travel there.

(Isaiah 35:8-9, The Living Bible-TLB)